Database module & multithreading

Jon Ribbens jon+usenet at unequivocal.co.uk
Sun Mar 11 08:19:51 EDT 2007


In article <mailman.4936.1173614117.32031.python-list at python.org>, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>>>> I don't know, but stock Python 2.5 seems to stick mysterious '.egg'
>>>> files in the site-packages directory when you install things.
>>>
>>> Which "stock" Python? Not the one from www.python.org...
>>
>> Yes, the one from www.python.org.
> 
> Those .egg must come from other installed packages...

My mistake, they are ".egg-info". And they certainly do come from
stock Python 2.5 from www.python.org and not anything else. They
are installed by distutils/command/install_egg_info, which is
automatically called by 'python setup.py install'.



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